From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 14:04:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16832 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16819 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 4556 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Jan 1998 21:57:21 +0000 (GMT) To: tom@sdf.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 13:25:36 -0800 (PST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:57:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4554.885679040@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Also some organizations have wasted a lot of space, probably because > they aren't willing to re-allocate address space. For example, IBM has > 9/8. I really doubt that IBM has 16 million hosts on the Internet, even > with their Advantis Internet Service. It's worse than that. IBM now also has 32/8, because they bought the Norwegian service provider NIT, which had picked up 32/8 waaaay back (NIT would never been able to justify an /8 block these days, of course). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no